The Power of Ethical Persuasion: Winning Through Understanding at Work and at Home

From Publishers Weekly
“Helping people communicate to each other what it feels like to live in their separate, private worlds of experience” is the goal of ethical persuasion, a problem-solving strategy devised by psychiatrist Rusk (with Miller, the coauthor of Instead of Therapy ). According to this [...]

Transforming Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: The Social Work Role

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“This book is a vision for what nursing home care can be. It includes physical, psychological, social/cultural, and spiritual aspects of care, and the coverage of these issues is superior because of the interdisciplinary authorship of the book. Family and patient issues are covered, as [...]

Spaces for Work

With the rise in people working from home, home offices have become more common. The challenge is to maintain a professional space, while still having it remain part of your home. This book shows through gorgeous colour photographs, how to meet such chall
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Water, Electricity and Health: Protecting Yourself from Electrostress at Home and Work

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“Rivetting and informative; the first book I have seen that brings a holistic understanding of how electricity affects life – and what we can do about it” Christopher Day, ecological architect and author of “Places of the Soul”.
This guide helps readers to understand [...]

Make the Connection: Improve Your Communication at Work and at Home

In this collection of compelling and practical essays, Emmy Award-winning broadcaster, newspaper columnist, and motivational speaker Steve Adubato shares concrete tips and tools that will help you connect more effectively at work, at home, under pressure, in leadership roles, and in high-tech environments. From avoiding unnecessary arguments with your spouse to coaching [...]

The New Way Things Work

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“Is it a fact–or have I dreamt it–that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?” If you, like Nathaniel Hawthorne, are kept up at night wondering about how things work–from [...]

The Daddy Shift: How Stay-at-Home Dads, Breadwinning Moms, and Shared ParentingAreTransforming the American Family

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“Jeremy Adam Smith writes so well and so honestly about his love of staying home with his son, about the economics of his family life, and about the politics of our nation at large. Whoever doesn’t already think the public and the domestic are linked needs [...]

Home, School, and Community Relations

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“Easy to follow the progression of information in the chapters. Excellent supplemental resources. Easily read and understood by students ?””The greatest strengths are comprehensive coverage, up-to-date material, relevant research, state-of-the-art organization, complete bibliographies, relevance to our present day challenges in education, reflective of parents’, students’ [...]

The Commercialization of Intimate Life: Notes from Home and Work

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“As a feminist, Hochschild celebrates some of the advances made by the women’s movement. . . . There is wit, humour and joy, as well as portents of doom. “–The Financial Times (UK) — ReviewHochschild celebrates. . . advances made by the women’s [...]

The Power of Women: Harness Your Unique Strengths at Home, at Work, and in Your Community

From Publishers Weekly
According to Yale psychology professor Nolen-Hoeksema (Women Who Think Too Much), women have unique mental strengths. Neither conformist nor rigid, women find many pathways to their goals and work toward getting a job done rather than getting their way. Women, the author says, [...]

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